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PATENTBD MAY45, 1903.

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APPLICATION FILED DEC. 6 1902.

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ATENT OFFICE.

OWEN BURNS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A SSIGNOR TO YV. F. BURNS COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

COIN-BANK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 727,282, dated May 5, 1903.

Application filed December 6, 1902. Serial No. 134,135. (No model.)

T at whont it may concern:

Be it known that I, OWEN BUR-NS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Coin-Bank, of which the following is a specification in its best form now known to me, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which similarnumerals indicate the same parts throughout the several views.

My invention relates to a class of banks formerly used exclusively as toys, but new extensively used in connection with the savings departments of commercial banks.

The object of my invention is to provide mechanism whereby money may be inserted in the permanent storage chamber of the bank through a slot or other opening in the outside of the bank in such a way that it cannot be removed through the passage-way by which it entered the storagekchamber.

My invention consists in a mechanism within the bank operated by the coin as it passes into the bank, in combination with certain stationary guides and guards which make the accomplishment of the above-mentioned Object successful.

My invention also consists many details of construction, which will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure lis aside sectional view of the bank of the class described, showing the parts in the position which they as-' su me before the coin has been inserted. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the parts in the position during the time when the coin is passing through the entrance mechanism into the interior permanent storage-chamber of the bank.

Referring again to the drawings, I provide a bank-box of rectangular form having, in ad dition to front and back walls, (not shown,) the base 11, two side walls 12 and 13, and a top wall 14. WVithin this bank I provide an antechamber 15, formed by the interior partition extending from front to back of the bank and made up preferably of the portions 16, 17, and 18, the partition being secured to one wall of the bank by a suitable rivet 19, and, if desired, to the top by other rivets. (Not shown.)

Pivoted within the chamber 15 on shaft 20, mounted on a suitable support or supports 21, is a tilting plane 22. This tilting plane 22 has on one end an angular-winged portion 23, adapted when the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 1 to close a slot 24 in the wall 16 and also adapted when the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 2 to pass through slot 25 in the interior wall 17. making'the distance from the lower edge of slot 24 to the interior wall 17 a little longer than the angular-winged portion 23 this slot 25 may be omitted, if desired. On the other end of the tilting plane 22is anotherangularwinged portion 26, which is adapted to pass through a slot 27 in 'the wall 28 of the chute 31, to be hereinafter-described. On the lower side of tilting plane 22 is a stop and counterbalance-weight 29, adapted to bear against the interior wall 18 when the parts are in the position as shown in Fig. 1 and limit the motion of that end of the tilting plane 22 and also adapted as a counterweight to hold the tilting plane 22 normally in position, as shown in Fig. 1.

In the exterior wall 13 of the bank is cut a coin-slot 30, and extending from it inside the bank is acoin-chute 31, having as its bottom the piece 28, heretofore referred to. bottom 28 of this chute 31 is, as shown, substantially in a straight line between the bottom of the slot 30 and the bottom of the slot 24, bothheretofore referred to, and the location of the pivot 20, supporting tilting plane wing 23 will close slot 24, and when the parts 5 are in position shown in Fig. 2 the wing 26 will close the chute 31 or the slot 30, as shown in Fig. 1, the slot 2 1 being open. The chute 31 is made of such a length that when the coin has been passed through slot 30 into 100 chute 31 it does not touch the tilting plane 22 until it is nearly, it not entirely, past the The 80 The center of the pivotal point'20, so that .the weight of the coin strikes the lower or lefthand end of the tilting plane 22 and by its geight carries plane 22 to position shown in The operation of my invention is as follows: Because of the counterweight heretofore described the parts normally assume the position shown in Fig. l. I now insert the coin 32 through the slot 30 into the chute 31 and allow it to pass by gravity to the position shown in Fig. 2. In so doing the weight of this coin, the lower edge resting on the tilting plane, while the upper edge is supported by the chute, tilts the plane 22 to the position shown in Fig. 2, the angular wing 26 closing the chute 31 and the angular wing 23 being moved away from the slot 24:. As soon as the parts have assumed this position the coin 32 immediately moves on down plane 22 through slot 24 into the interior permanent storage-chamber 15 of the bank. As soon as the coin 32 moves ofi the lower end of plane 22 through slot 24 the counterweighting of the plane 22 causes the parts to immediately resume the position shown in Fig. 1, where the chute is opened and the slot 24 is closed, in which position it is manifestly impossible to remove the coin through the slot 24 by the way of the chamber 15 into the chute 31, and thus into the outer air. If now it is attempted to extract the coin from the bank by inverting it, the parts willassume by gravity the position shown in Fig. 2, and as the angular wing 26 closes slot 30' it is also impossible to extract the coin by inserting any instrument from the outside, for at no time in the operation of the bank is there even a slight unobstructed passage way from the outer air through the slots 30 and 24 into the chamber 23.

Having thus described my invention, what 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a coin-bank, the combination of a bank having a coin-slot in one exterior wall, an interior partition, having a coin-slot therein, dividing the bank into an antechamber and a permanent storage-chamber, the coinslot in the partition-wall being opposite but below the coin-slot in the outer wall; a tilting plane so pivotally mounted within the antechamber, that'when tilted to the proper angle it is approximately in line with the lower edges of the slots, and also adapted to normally rest in an approximately horizontal position, an angular wing on the under side of one end of said plane adapted to normally temporarily obstruct the slot in the internal wall, an angular wing on the upper side of the opposite end of the tilting plane adapted to normally leave the slot in the exterior wall open and to temporarily obstruct the same when that end of the tilting plane is elevated, and a chute extending from the slot in the exterior wall downward in the direction of the slot in the interior Wall to approximately the pivotal point of the tilting plane and counterbalances or stops adapted to normally hold the plane in such a position that the exterior slot is open and the interior slot is closed.

2. In a coin-bank, the combination of a bank having a coin-slot in one exterior wall, an interior partition, having a coin-slot therein, dividing the bank into an antechamber and a permanent storage-chamber, the coinslot in the partition-wall being opposite but below the coin-slot in the outer wall; a tilting plane so pivotally mounted within the antechamber, that when tilted to the proper angle it is approximately in line with the lower edges of the slots, and also adapted to normally rest in an approximately horizontal position, an angular wing on the under side of one end of said plane adapted to normally temporarily obstruct the slot in the internal wall, an angular wing on the upper side of the opposite end of the tilting plane adapted to normally leave the slot in the exterior wall open and to temporarily obstruct the same when that end of the tilting plane is elevated, and a chute extending from the slotin the exterior wall downward in the direction of the slot in the interior wall to approximately the pivotal point of the tilting plane and counterbalances or steps adapted to normally hold the plane in such a position that the exterior slot is open and the interior slot is closed, theparts being arranged and disposed substantially as shown and described for the purposes set forth.

OWEN BURNS. Witnesses:

PAUL MACDONALD, E. W. WATERMAN.

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